• HubPress - Easy web app to build directly on GitHub - just fork it and go.
• Phusion Passenger 5 beta 3: more stable, turbocaching updates - Stable enough to use in production with caution.
• Introducing Sandi Metz's TRUE - A look at some heuristics for judging code quality.

• Ruby DSL Handbook - New book in beta, $12 gets you early access. By Jim Gay, the author of Clean Ruby.
• Working with the ELK Stack at Skroutz - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana for crunching through a bunch of data.
• Git v2.3 Release Notes - Nothing huge, lots of little tweaks.
• Ship Code Faster: Announcing GitHub Integration GA - Push to GitHub, fresh code deploys to Heroku after it passes your CI.

• Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism: A Practical Primer - Processes, threads, and pools, oh my.
• Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard - Together with some advice on surviving the process.
• Now Available - Version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby - We're at the point where you could spend an entire career learning to code things on top of Amazon's cloud.

• New Methods in Ruby 2.2 - Yep, there are some changes besides better GC.
• The Rails API Mini Guide - Testing, rendering, versioning, and more info for your first JSON API in Rails.
• TestFairy - Mobile app testing service for both iOS and Android applciations.

• Gutter - Server monitoring as a Rails engine.
• Shoulda Matchers 2.8.0 - The latest version of Thoughtbot's test helpers for validations and associations, complete with Rails 4.2 support.
• Announcing MongoDB 3.0 - Plenty of hype here, but looks like some good feature advances as well. I'm still skeptical that it is "the new DBMS standard".

• Traveling Ruby 20150130, adds many native extensions, upgrades OpenSSL - Some advances in this single-package distribution framework for ruby applications.
• Accessory Gems, Part I: Private Gemfiles - How to split off gems that you only use in development from your main Gemfile.
• Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger - "A little guide about how to be the Erlang medic in a time of war".

• Firefox Hello - Simple video conferencing built into new versions of Firefox.
• An Interactive Cartoon Guide to Ruby on Rails - Another take on how to run a Rails course for beginners.
• New RSpec Website! - Indeed it is. Looks spiffy.

If you're looking for a senior Rails or junior Erlang developer, Dana Jones is looking for her next position.

• Pronto - Automated code analysis tool that you can use with GitHub, GitLab, or locally.
• Announcing Hound: A Lightning Fast Code Search Tool - Designed to search across multiple repositories.
• iOS on Rails - Reference book and repository for designing both a Rails API and an iOS app to consume it. $39 from Thoughtbot.

• Rapp - Scaffolding generator for command-line ruby applications.
• Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus - A quick introduction to the new monitoring system developed by SoundCloud.
• Preview: Intercity CLI - "One command for installing and configuring your VPS, Cloud instance or hardware to run Rails applications.

• Organizing microservices in a single git repository - Some thoughts on how to manage the additional complexity.
• Kleisli - "Usable, idiomatic common monads in Ruby," just in case you're pining for a glass of the functional koolaid.
• Gitcolony - Integrated code review and QA tools for git repos. Commercial service.

• Clearwater, a Front-End Web Framework in Ruby - A new alternative that might grow into something big. Or not. But if you'd rather write Ruby than JavaScript it's worth a look.
• Web Scraping with Ruby - Using fairly low-level parsing courtesy of Nokogiri.
• A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on Amazon Web Services - Part 1 - Comprehensive is right, there's a ton of stuff here.

• Formstone - A collection of responsive jQuery widgets.
• Announcing rubybench.org - A plan to benchmark the evolution of MRI continuously to prevent regressions. Some nice preliminary results, now looking for sponsors.
• Arch Linux on MacBook Pro Retina 2014 with DM-Crypt, LVM, and suspend to disk - Just in case you want Apple hardware with Linux software.

• Fuse - Cross-platform development environment that enables writing Android and iOS apps in a C# dialect.
• Hover.css - All sorts of CSS3-powered hover effects to make your pages pop & annoy.
• I Am Proposing "Refactor Fridays" - An idea on how to institutionalize improving your code.

• loaf - Easy implementation of breadcrumbs for your Rails applications.
• Octodown - Local preview of how your Markdown will look when deployed to Github.
• Having Fun With Functional Programming in Ruby - Yes, you can. All it takes is the lambda operator.

• Ginatra - Sinatra-based web front end for git.
• ActiveEmoji - Emoji aliases for core ruby methods. Yes, this lets you write code in emoji. Ack.
• Building an amazing fullscreen mobile experience - A good roundup of what you have to do to get browser chrome to go away when you're doing something like displaying a beer list on a TV via Android.

• pgcli - Command-line interface for PostgreSQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
• Sass Guidelines - Everything you wanted to know about writing good Sass. And then some.
• Speed Up Rails By Starting on the Front - How to tune your delivery to help out the user experience.

• Databound - A gem to provide a JavaScript API for your Rails applications.
• Octohub - OS X 10.10 application for GitHub project management, now in beta.
• Secure Secure Shell - Setting up SSH to improve your chances of defeating the NSA.

• Increasing a Boot2Docker Volume - The (rather non-obvious) solution to mystery "no space left on device" errors when building Docker images on OS X.
• Rails Deploy - A set of ansible scripts for setting up Rails applications.
• Unhosted Web Apps - "Freedom from Web 2.0's Monopoly Platforms" by pushing everything to the user'd computer and running it all locally.

• ROM 0.5.0 Released - A major update to this ruby object mapping project, complete with new documentation.
• bundler-audit - Use your Gemfile information to be informed of security vulnerabilities.
• Rails 4.1.9.rc1 and 4.0.13.rc1 have been released! - Another batch of maintenance releases is on the way this week.

Looks like this is the special 'code politics' edition...

• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - A skeptical look at what the explosion of bazaar-type design has left us with. Much as I politically prefer the bazaar, I think it's obvious that the quality of most modern software can best be described as "crap." Of course this applies to closed source projects as well.
• Matz's Ruby Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby - A rant.
• RubySpec is dead, long live RubySpec! - And a counterpoint.